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From: oleg@crash.cts.com (Oleg Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga ad on TV
Message-ID: <5799@crash.cts.com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 06:57:23 GMT
References: <23409@grebyn.com>
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Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <23409@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>Well, tonight I saw an Amiga ad on TV.  It was during Star Trek: The

>
>If you remember one of the old C64 TV ads, where a young fellow is
>interviewing for a job and talking about his high scores on video games
>as qualification for a computer job, this ad made me think of that one.
>It was definitely promoting the A500 as a smarter alternative to a Nintendo.
>And a splendid alternative it makes, I have no argument there.  And I
>guess if that old C64 ad worked, this one may work too.  It even used
>the same music and announcer.
>
>Well (sigh) I guess I see where the Amiga is going to end up...
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Where the Amiga is going to end up? The best selling personal computer
of all time (that's where C-64 ended up)?

Heck, if C-A can sell millions of A500s, perhaps that new '040 machine
will be out just a bit sooner, and software companies will put out
just a few more applications, and there'll be a few more peripherals
out, and...

Regards,
 OR

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